Ebook Does Divorce Make People Happy
DOES DIVORCE typically make adults happier than staying in an unhappy marriage? Many Americans assume so. This study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first serious effort to investigate this assumption empirically. Using the National Survey of Families and Households (a nationally representative survey), we looked at all spouses (645 spouses out of 5,232 married adults) who in the late ’80s rated their marriages as unhappy. Five years later these same adults were reinterviewed, so we were able to follow unhappy spouses as their lives took different paths: in the interim, some had divorced or separated and some stayed married.
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Executive Summary
Introduction
- 1. The Divorce Assumption: Findings from the NSFH
2. How Do Marriages Get Happier? Focus Group Interviews
3. The Future of Unhappy Marriages
Endnotes
Appendix: The Focus Group Sample
Tables 1 - 6
About the Authors
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Ebook Does Divorce Make People Happy
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